Raegan–Gray and white female on the left When we got Raegan from a good freind of our’s, April Wood, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California last summer we were hoping that she would fit right in to a team and become a sled dog. Last winter we tested her out with a couple dogs […]
March 17, 2011
Raegan watching the Magpies as the dance in they warm, late winter weather at our home in Willow, Alaska.
February 24, 2011
I have been looking forward to this day since I was in the Sierra Nevada foothills last summer to pick out a pup from a musher friend of mine. The goal was simple; find a pup that would have the potential to be a sled dog and become the beginning of something big. When […]
October 17, 2010
I ran across a quote the other day that I wanted to share and write a little bit about: “Dogs don’t know about beginnings, and they speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also do not know–or at least accept–the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don’t […]
October 12, 2010
The Future Home of Iditarod Dreams: I’m a Big Kid Now! If you are like me and you are a student of pop culture, you know the little jingle that is today’s title: I’m a Big Kid Now! It is from a Huggies commercial but it really fits today and my five month […]
October 3, 2010
31 Days of Horror: Day 2 Movie: The Exorcist Every year we have a tradition in the Forto house where we celebrate the greatest month of the year, October, with scare your socks off, hide under the covers, turn on all the lights, sleep with one eye open, fright fest, movie marathon every night of […]
October 1, 2010
The Future Home of Iditarod Dreams: 31 Days of Horror Every family has some sort of tradition. That is what makes us unique from the rest of middle-class suburbia in the middle of Americana with hot apple pie and the mini van in the driveway. Some of us go all out decorating our houses like […]
September 30, 2010
The Future Home of Iditarod Dreams: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore… This past weekend I attended a symposium put on by the Willow (Alaska) Dog Mushers Association and lets just say I got schooled! I have called myself a musher for the better part of two decades and after hearing these guys talk I soon […]
September 9, 2010
The Future Home of Iditarod Dreams: Pandemonium and Home Depot Going to college in the Pacific Northwest and practically cutting my teeth in the music world in Seattle in the height of the Grunge Movement I have had my share of great coffee. I have been to the original Starbucks coffee cafe and every mom […]
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